Explore 2579 historical events from 2010–2019.
Gerhard "Gad" Beck was an Israeli-German educator, author, activist, resistance member, and survivor of the Holocaust.
Gad Beck, German author and educator (born 1923)
Gu Chaohao was a Chinese mathematician. He graduated from National Chekiang University in 1948, and received a doctorate in physics and mathematical science from Moscow University …
Gu Chaohao, Chinese mathematician and academic (born 1926)
Miguel "Miki" Roqué Farrero was a Spanish professional footballer who played as a central defender.
Miki Roqué, Spanish footballer (born 1988)
Ann C. Scales was an American lawyer, activist, and law professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law from 2003 to 2012, where she taught in constitutional law, sexual…
Ann C
Lonesome George was a male Pinta Island tortoise and the last known individual of the subspecies. In his last years, he was known as the rarest creature in the world. George serves…
Lonesome George, last known Pinta Island tortoise (hatched c
Shigemitsu Dandō was a professor of the department of Social and Political sciences at the University of Tokyo, an academic researcher of criminology, and a Justice of the Supreme…
Shigemitsu Dandō, Japanese academic and jurist (born 1913)
Campbell Gillies was a Scottish National Hunt jockey most notable for his victory on Brindisi Breeze in the Albert Bartlett Novices' Hurdle at the 2012 Cheltenham Festival. In tota…
Campbell Gillies, Scottish jockey (born 1990)
George Randolph Hearst Jr. was an American businessman and member of the wealthy Hearst family. He served as the chairman of the board of the Hearst Corporation from 1996 through t…
George Randolph Hearst, Jr
Lucella MacLean [Ross] was a former utility who played from 1943 through 1944 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). She batted and threw right handed.
Lucella MacLean, American baseball player (born 1921)
Edgar "Mad Dog" Ross was an American professional boxer who competed from 1972 and 1979. As an amateur, he won the Alabama Golden Gloves as a light heavyweight.
Edgar Ross, American boxer (born 1949)
Pat Cummings was an American professional basketball player.
Pat Cummings, American basketball player (born 1956)
Nora Ephron was an American writer, playwright, journalist, and filmmaker. Known for writing and directing romantic comedy films, she received numerous accolades including a BAFTA …
Nora Ephron, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1941)
Mario Herrero O'Hara was a Filipino film director, film producer and screenwriter known for his sense of realism often with dark but realistic social messages.
Mario O'Hara, Filipino director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1944)
Carl Sverker Åström was a Swedish diplomat. After completing his studies, Åström began his career as an attaché at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm. He served in the S…
Sverker Åström, Swedish diplomat, Swedish Permanent Representative to the United Nations (born 1915)
Dorthea "Doris" Singleton was an American actress, perhaps best remembered as Lucy Ricardo's frenemy, Carolyn Appleby, in I Love Lucy.
Doris Singleton, American actress (born 1919)
Stanley Ernest Walter Cox was a British athlete who competed in two Olympic games in 1948 and 1952. Cox served with Royal Air Force in World War II before competing in the 10,000-m…
Stan Cox, English runner (born 1918)
Rosemary de Brissac Dobson was an Australian poet, illustrator, editor and anthologist. She published fourteen volumes of poetry, was published in almost every annual volume of Aus…
Rosemary Dobson, Australian poet and illustrator (born 1920)
Richard A. Isay was an American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, author and gay activist. He was a professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and a faculty member of the …
Richard Isay, American psychiatrist and author (born 1934)
Leontine Turpeau Current Kelly was an American bishop of the United Methodist Church. She was the second woman elevated to the position of bishop within the United Methodist Church…
Leontine T
Robert Sabatier was a French poet and writer. He wrote numerous novels, essays and books of aphorisms and poems. He was elected to the Académie Goncourt in 1971, as well as to the …
Robert Sabatier, French author and poet (born 1923)
Doris Jane Sams, nicknamed "Sammye", was an American outfielder and pitcher who played from 1946 through 1953 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Liste…
Doris Sams, American baseball player (born 1927)
Yong Nyuk Lin was a Singaporean politician who served as the Minister for Communications between 1968 and 1975, Minister for Health between 1963 and 1968, and Minister for Educatio…
Yong Nyuk Lin, Singaporean politician, Singaporean Minister of Health (born 1918)
Vincent Alfred Ostrom was an American political economist, the founding director of the Ostrom Workshop based at Indiana University, and the Arthur F. Bentley Professor Emeritus of…
Vincent Ostrom, American political scientist and academic (born 1919)
Hans Werner "Juan" Reccius Ellwanger was a Chilean athlete who competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. He competed in the men's triple jump event, but did not advance beyon…
Juan Reccius, Chilean triple jumper (born 1911)